Carlena
#11,128 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carlena has been given to 1,426 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #11,128 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Carlena, 2025
1 in 414,000
Carlena over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Carlena?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,128
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carlena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carlenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlena was born before 1976 — so the typical Carlena is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 15.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,164
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (227).
Is Carlena rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +193
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,655
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,526
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.73×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.0%
- Peak was 1975 (42)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.3% average annual change
Spellings of Carlena
Carlena is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 17.3% against Carlena's 0.12%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Carlena is used
Across 1910–2025, Carlena was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 854,260 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carlena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carlena around the world
Where Carlena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–1996#3,795in 1996
- Canada1995–1995#2,277in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Carlena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Carlena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carlena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.